Play as the versatile United Federation of Planets, the enigmatic Romulan Star Empire or as the formidable Klingon Defence Force!

The mod will spread over all four Star Trek eras (ENT, TOS, TMP and TNG) and you will find a diverse and well balanced list of starships and space stations at your disposal
This mod aims to bring together the best parts of such classic games as Star Trek: Armada 2 and
Star Trek: Legacy in the beautiful and malleable Homeworld 2 engine

Today I am going to give you a quick run through on how to access the Steam network for multiplayer games as described by one of the Gearbox devs on their forum. This is not working just yet according to this thread, but this is how it willwork when it does, and there are workarounds described in the thread. When this is patched I will update this news post to remove the mention of it not working yet

As for how it should work...

Step 1: Pretty obvious, go into the mods section of the launcher

Step 2: Select HW2 classic mods

Step 3: Select the mod you want to play multiplayer games with

Step 4: Add "-mpbeta" to the command line section and launch the game!

This is the instructions given by Gearbox as the workaround for the launcher bug in the meantime:

Create a shortcut to the executable in the Homeworld2Classic\Bin\Release folder (Homeworld2.exe) and then modify the shortcut to add "-mpbeta" to the end of the target line, followed by "-workshopmod", followed by the path to your mod. This path will be different for different players.

The path will start with the folder inside the Homeworld2Classic\DataWorkshopMods folder (that folder will by your numerical Steam ID) followed by a backslash, followed the folder with your mod's Workshop ID, followed by a backslash, followed by the name of your mod's .big file, like this:

-mpbeta -workshopmod 76557197238954965\403358147\STC_GAMMA.big

You can use that shortcut to explicitly run multiplayer with your mod. Just be aware that each player will need to modify this path to use their specific SteamID as the first part of the folder name.

Sorry if I sound annoying :/ But the new released mod isn't working for me, every time I start a match and wait in the loading screen it just crashes just before going in the map. I have tried different races and shaders but nothing is working.

Update: To try and fix the problem I re-downloaded and updated my graphics drivers. Problem is now STC won't load at all. :( I click Launch, it goes to a black screen for a couple of seconds then returns right back to the launcher.

These keep coming up in the error log:
"error executing GetAssumedLatestDll() in driverConfig.lua"
and
"14.501.1003.0 AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series renderer (Suspected driver is 0)"

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Fantastic mod, really does an excellent job of bringing Star Trek to Homeworld 2. Ships and weapon effects all look great and there’s a lot of little details that really make it come alive. Revamped hyperspace is a great addition as it makes combat and resource gathering much more painless. Only downside is that most maps don’t have a colored skybox, making ships sometimes difficult to see against a mostly black background. Shipyard research also seems a little long, slowing down your midgame. Research…

Aug 20 2011, 5:28pm by SwissKnight

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Real Time Strategy

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Sci-Fi

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